You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
HERMANN HESSEYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
HERMANN HESSEAnd all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
HERMANN HESSEYou know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
HERMANN HESSENot in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
HERMANN HESSEIf time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
HERMANN HESSEBeauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
HERMANN HESSEYour soul is the whole world.
HERMANN HESSEAs a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
HERMANN HESSEAll life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
HERMANN HESSEThe man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
HERMANN HESSEThe true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSEOh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
HERMANN HESSEA tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
HERMANN HESSEA house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
HERMANN HESSENever is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSEWe are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
HERMANN HESSE